Profile: Tim Willis

Loft credits (click a play title to view details)

• Davies, The Caretaker (2020)
• Director/Uncle Jocko, Gypsy (2017)
• Möbius, The Physicists (2017)
• Director, Oliver! (2016)
• Director, Sweeney Todd (2016)
• Director/David O. Selznick, Moonlight and Magnolias (2016)
• Director, Little Shop of Horrors (2015)
• Director, Godspell (2015)
• Director, Scrooge The Musical (2014)
• Philip, Relatively Speaking (2014)
• Waiter, Betrayal (2014)
• Director, Under Milk Wood (2014)
• Ivan Voynitski, Uncle Vanya (2013)
• Set design/Director, Entertaining Mr Sloane (2013)
• Set concept/Director, West Side Story (2012)
• Eddie Carbone, A View From the Bridge (2012)
• Director/Set design, Rent (2011)
• Set concept/Director, Glengarry Glen Ross (2011)
• Set design/Director, Never the Sinner (2009)
• Director, Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2006)
• Neville Bunker, Season’s Greetings (2005)
• Director, A Slice of Saturday Night (2005)
• Willy Nilly/Cherry Owen, Under Milk Wood (1987)
• Vicar, Cider with Rosie (1986)
• Mr Dean, No More Sitting on the Old School Bench (1984)

Elsewhere

• Director, 10 Questions (2011, Embassy Club, Stratford Fringe Festival)
• Director, 10 Questions (2011, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton Festival)
• Director, The 39 Steps (2011, Criterion Theatre)
• Mr Lockhart, The Seafarer (2011, Criterion Theatre)
• Barnabus Goche, The Herbal Bed (2010, Criterion Theatre)
• Director, Rent (2010, Talisman Theatre)
• David O. Selznick, Moonlight and Magnolias (2010, Criterion Theatre)
• Company, An Evening with Alan Bennett (2010, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, Little Shop of Horrors (2010, Criterion Theatre)
• Director, Animal Farm (2009, Talisman Theatre)
• Sgt Mellors, A Murder is Announced (2009, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, Playhouse Creatures (2009, Talisman Theatre)
• Sidney Bruhl, Deathtrap (2009, Rugby Theatre)
• Jack Manningham, Gaslight (2008, Criterion Theatre)
• Director, The Graduate (2008, Talisman Theatre)
• Company, Jacques Brel Revisited (2008, Talisman Theatre)
• Company, Porter and Brel (2007, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, Under Milk Wood (2007, Talisman Theatre)
• Kevin, Outside Edge (2007, Talisman Theatre)
• Abanazar, Aladdin (2007, Talisman Theatre)
• Henry Ormonroyd, When We Are Married (2007, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, Charlie and Algernon (2007, Talisman Theatre)
• Gregory Smirnov, The Bear (2006, Talisman Theatre, Kenilworth Festival)
• Nocella, Filumena (2006, Talisman Theatre)
• Cardinal Richelieu, The Three Musketeers (2006, Made in 48 Hours)
• Director, Dad’s Army (2006, Talisman Theatre)
• Newscaster, Return to the Forbidden Planet (2006, Rugby Theatre)
• Van Helsing, Dracula (2005, Made in 48 Hours)
• Brutus, Julius Caesar (2005, Talisman Theatre)
• Director, Humble Boy (2005, Talisman Theatre)
• Wheeler, Puss in Boots (2004, Talisman Theatre)
• Arthur Gerard, Strangers on a Train (2004, Rugby Theatre)
• Director, An Evening with Gary Lineker (2004, Talisman Theatre)
• Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2004, Rugby Theatre)
• Rev Tooker, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2003, Talisman Theatre)
• Sir Henry Baskerville, The Hound of the Baskervilles (2003, Rugby Theatre)
• Company, Second From Last in the Sack Race (2003, Talisman Theatre)
• Mephisto, Sinbad the Sailor (2003, Talisman Theatre)
• Sheriff, Yee-Haw (1999, Jermyn Street Theatre, London)
• Emperor, Aladdin (1997, Hackney Empire, London)
• Brian Doyle, Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1997, Oxford Playhouse and UK tour)
• EastEnders (1996, BBC TV)
• Emperor, Aladdin (1996, Lyceum Theatre, Crewe)
• Nachum, Fiddler on the Roof (1995, UK tour)
• Brian Doyle, Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1995, Library Theatre, Manchester (European Premiere))
• Jellaby, Arcadia (1995, (NT) Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and UK tour)
• Don Pedro, Puss in Boots (1995, Queens Theatre, Barnstaple)
• Baron Hardup, Cinderella (1994, Harlequin Theatre, Redhill)
• The Arts Programme (1994, BBC Radio 2)
• Pebble Mill at One (1994, BBC TV)
• Nachum, Fiddler on the Roof (1994, London Palladium and UK tour)
• Company, Straight and Narrow (1993, Churchill Theatre, Bromley and UK tour)
• Quack/Rudge, Lust (1993, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, West End)
• Bullfighter, Puss in Boots (1993, Lyceum Theatre, Crewe)
• Sultan, Dick Whittington (1992, Forum Theatre, Billingham)
• The Lover, Revenge (1992, Theatre Royal, Windsor and UK tour)
• Company, Don’t Rock the Boat (1992, Orchard Theatre, Dartford and UK tour)
• Paravicini, The Mousetrap (1992, St. Pauli Theater, Hamburg)
• Paravicini, The Mousetrap (1992, Tel Aviv and Israeli national tour)
• Stromboli, Pinocchio (1991, Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, Isle of Man)
• Raffaella Carra Show (1991, Rai Uno TV, Italy)
• TV Donna (1991, TeleMonteCarlo (TMC), Italy)
• Company, TIE Project (1991, English Theater, Hamburg and German tour)
• Stromboli, Pinocchio (1991, Playhouse Theatre, Weston-super-Mare)
• Riff-Raff, The Rocky Horror Show (1990, Teatro Vittoria, Rome and Italian national tour)
• Riff-Raff, The Rocky Horror Show (1990, Casino de Paris, Paris)
• Company, Mother Courage (1990, Mermaid Theatre, West End)
• Riff-Raff, The Rocky Horror Show (1990, Geneva and European Tour)
• Emperor, Aladdin (1989, Pavilion Theatre, Weymouth)
• Riff-Raff, The Rocky Horror Show (1989, Baden-Baden and European tour)
• Avram, Fiddler on the Roof (1989, Theatre Royal, Plymouth)
• Clive/Cathy, Cloud Nine (1988, Mountview Theatre School)
• Dennis Wicksteed, Habeas Corpus (1988, Mountview Theatre School)
• Wicked Witch, Mother Goose (1988, Thameside Theatre, Grays)
• Maurice, Good (1987, Talisman Theatre)
• Ratty, The Wind in the Willows (1987, Talisman Theatre)
• John, The Sons of Light (1987, Bare and Ragged Theatre Company)
• Carnoustie Bligh, Rock-A-Bye Sailor (1986, Talisman Theatre)
• Macduff, Macbeth (1986, Talisman Theatre)
• Major William Cardew, Home and Beauty (1986, Talisman Theatre)
• Lt Rooney, Arsenic and Old Lace (1986, Talisman Theatre)
• Zoltan Karparthy, My Fair Lady (1986, Spa Opera Group)
• Yasha, The Cherry Orchard (1985, Talisman Theatre)
• Roper, A Man for All Seasons (1985, Talisman Theatre)
• Sheriff Of Nottingham, Babes in the Wood (1985, Talisman Theatre)
• Minstrel, Once Upon A Mattress (1985, Talisman Theatre)
• Richard Winthrop, The Ghost Train (1984, Talisman Theatre)

Notes

Tim trained as an actor at Mountview Theatre School. He is a former Artistic Director of the Loft Theatre Company and also of the Talisman Theatre, Kenilworth, and a former NODA regional representative for South Warwickshire.

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